"Hospitals are fun..."
"So that's what happened in our encounter with Stain. We've all made it out in one piece... It's nothing. Soon we'll all return to school so we'll talk later" Midoriya says to Uraraka. "Talking to a girl on the phone... it's amazing." Deku returns to his hospital room where Ida and Todoroki are waiting for him.
"Done talking with your girlfriend?" Al asks.
"There's teasing and then there's being violent. Please restrain yourself!" Ida keeps trying to make Al stop saying whatever passes through his mind but he spent so much blood in the attack that he didn't recovered properly and his brain doesn't receive enough blood making him not lose body capacities but act all weird and childish, more than usual.
"I was just talking with Uraraka, she was concerned about us after the fight with Stein."
"Which I didn't participated in! Thanks for calling me late Deku!"
"He has his eyes covered, can we stuff his mouth too?" Todoroki proposes. He got really angry with Al when the latter called him 'half a panda' and started talking about Endeavor and their family problems.
"Anyhow. Soon we'll be able to leave the hospital and return to school. All we have to do is... not talk about the Stein incident."
"Using our Quirks like that would get us in big troubles."
"Yeah, not like me who to use his Quirk and save lives! Let's kill Apex, I can't live another day of his training!"
"What in the world must have he experienced? This is the tenth time he started blathering about Apex Predator." Todoroki says with a ball made out of bandages and some tape in his hands.
"Please don't choke him. He might develop some really degenerate habits later in life!"
"Hey, hey don't worry. When you'll have a girl like Deku has you can make fire appear on your body and be covered in body hair. Girls love that!"
"Uraraka is not my..."
"He is breaking them... This is an art I must learn, defeating a villain without throwing one punch...Still, this might be a little too cruel for a hero to do." Ida says as he watches Al mentally exhaust Deku and Todoroki.
A few days later they finally return to school and life became normal again.
"Look at you Bakugo, all nice and proper. Best Jeanist must have treated you really well!"
"Shut up, I'll kill you all!"
"What about you, what kind of training did you had with the masked heroes?"
"It was great. Sky High was a great teacher and we had lots of personal training and battles! She even helped me create a few new moves too!" Mina replies.
"She put us through a lot of different situations and explained us how to do our best to solve them" Jiro adds.
"What about you Ochaco? How was your training with El Santo?"
"Enlightening! He showed me the true way of a luchador!" Uraraka says taking different poses and speaking with a deep fake voice.
"I guess you all had fun... I wish I could say the same about my experience with Apex. He was terrifying. For him a day is composed of 36 hours of training and eight hours of sleeping while mentally training. He chased us on foot from here all the way to Hosu in about a day and a half." Tsuyu falls on her knees. "He was always watching. You couldn't run, you had to face him. Every day, every hour every minute you'd create a plan to defeat him only to prove completely useless against all his different forms. Why, why all his forms have so many strengths, why all the damage you do to one form is completely negated when he switches to the other. Why is the honey beaver so monstrous?" The other girls are shocked hearing about her terrible time with her masked hero while they had fun working with theirs.
"Not even an ocean apart is enough to convince me he isn't watching still."
"How was working with Al?"
"Not as bad as I thought it would. He is a lot less insufferable when Bakugo isn't around. Don't tell him but Al does his mocking persona only to antagonise Bakugo into calling him out then immediately change to make him understand how unpleasant he too can be. Oops, I spoke too much."
"Alright class. Take your seats and be quite. Class is about to start." Aizawa says entering the room. "I'm sure you've all had a great time working with real heroes on the field but you all have to return to normal now. Soon we'll have our midterm exams then our final tests. I hope you all studied for the tests." Some did, some didn't and some absolutely cheated.
"I know you did but I have no proofs as of now." Aizawa says looking at Al suspicious of his perfect score.
"Can't you just accept I'm perfect in all I do?"
"I can accept the moon is made out of cheese rather than accepting you getting a perfect score on a written test."
"Well I studied a lot"
"You didn't. I am sure of it, I watched you out of school. You never went home, not once I entered it...
"Wait, that's criminal behaviour"
...And you never showed up. The few times I've managed to track you down around city was when you were selling corn to the government. I'll find how you cheated and I'll unmask you."
"Can I at least have the points for getting a perfect score?"
"No, zero points for you."
"I'll make a complaint to the administration, this is absolutely unacceptable bullying." Al says before leaving. A few steps after he turned around he makes a 180 and turns towards his teacher before calling him out by his name again. He just wouldn't call people by their rank or profession preferring to anger them by using their names directly without any form of appellative. Off to lunch the students go after a test.
"So, how did you cheated?" Mineta asks while eating next to Al, Midoriya, Kaminari and Ida.
"I did not."
"Is teacher Aizawa lying then?"
"No, he's right. I never studied for the exam but I did answered all the questions myself with knowledge from my own head."
"That... 'from my own head' is really suspicious." Mineta says pointing with his chopsticks towards Al.
"So, I have to explain to you a little how my Quirk works. When I'm outside of a row of corn I see with my eyes, when I'm inside of the corn I can see as if I'm inside all the bushes of corn I ever created. It's like I'm inside a room and turning to face a different wall makes me see from the perspective of a different bush of corn. It turns out I don't have an actual range to how far I can teleport once the bushes of corn have been created and no one ever bothered to remove the remaining corn from my native village therefore I was able to teleport back to South America."
"That far? What did you got private lessons there?"
"No, no, nothing that... simple. Well, you know how in South America there's this hero capable of giving you knowledge immediately as long as there's someone who has it? Well, everything that was in the test was knowledge people could easily share so... I paid off a few teachers, not from this school to give me their informations."
"How did you get them there though?"
"Oh, I didn't got them there. I brought Sage here with me. Remember how I sprayed Grey Tusk with my blood and sent him inside the corn rows then I made him teleport out of the ring. I did the same with Sage, I paid for him to come with me, I covered him with blood, came here, had him transfer the knowledge of those heroes into my mind, paid everyone off and sent him back. I had to argue with him a whole lot, he swore to never travel that way ever again, too creepy he said."
"Is that legal?"
"Is it cheating though? I had the information in my head, all I did was to get it there faster that simply reading about it! I know all that's written in those books, I didn't used a phone or a hidden page to cheat on the exam!"
"Say what you want but it sounds really scummy to me."
"It's... an innovative way to study. Wait, no! I just realised. Aren't you constantly using your Quirk in public without a license? That's illegal."
"Rules are made by weak people that can't control you through strength. They can't lock me up, they can't catch me and even if they could... I provide around sixty percent of all the corn the country consumes and exports."
"Sixty percent, that much?"
"Why do you think I always run out of blood so fast? I'm never working with a full tank!"
"Listen... Al. How terrifying is that corn world of yours?" Mineta asks with a very serious look on his face. "Tell me, is it worth it to crawl through hell to reach heaven? Is it worth it to go through your corn world if you bring me with you inside the girls locker room?"
"No. Be like Deku and get yourself a girlfriend." Al says.
"Here you go again talking all crazy... I don't have a girlfriend." Deku answers.
"Oh, I'm not going to make names but when you were in hospital she was quick to call you. Ida I swear don't open your mouth, this is good."
"I agree. This is for your good Deku. You have to grow as a person and the trials of your first love is one of the best medicine to strengthen your spirit!"
"Damn you Deku, not only you get a good grade but you even got a girl. It's unfair man, it's completely unfair." Mineta complains.
"I don't have one. I don't have a girlfriend!"
"Just think about all the beauties we have in our class. All of them have something special about them. Such variety such choice. It is enough to make a man's head spin. Who would you chose, who would you go for? Why even limit yourself to our class, think about the other classes and even the teachers too. There is so much this world is offering us, heaven is only one locked door away!" Mineta replies.
"And it should be locked, no actually the only door that should be locked is the one of your cell. Seek help man." Al adds.
"That's a good question though. Who would you go for if you'd have to chose? I already tried asking out Ibara Shiozaki from class 1-B and that didn't worked out..." Kaminari says.
"I'd go for all of them!" Mineta says and everyone gives him an 'of course you would stare'.
"Are we talking only of our class or everywhere else?" Al asks.
"Class only"
"Well... Tsuyu scares me since she reminds me of dart frogs. Mina is a slug and I don't like her pinkishness...
"You're blue!" Everyone says at once.
… I'll have to say Momo because of money plus great looks."
"You put money first?" Mineta shouts. "There are so many advantages in choosing Momo and you put money first. You're a disgrace."
"Don't you have money too?" Kaminari asks but he's overshadowed by Mineta complaining.
"Who's left then? Jiro has the punk rock aesthetic but it doesn't fit with my Aztec motif at all."
"What about Toru?"
"What about her? Until someone throws a bucket of paint on her I can't make a decision!"
"And what about Ochaco?"
"Dude, dude, you don't thread on private property like that. Be a pal!"
"What?"